| MD | HB686 | Pass | Extending from February 2019 to February 2021 the month after which the Comptroller is required to begin withholding from certain quarterly income tax distributions certain amounts owed by certain local governments to the Local Reserve Account; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-26
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 824 |
| MD | HB1286 | Pass | Prohibiting the State or its reporting agency from entering into certain contracts or plans related to the redevelopment of a certain project at State Center unless certain criteria are met; requiring certain criteria to be included in any new or mod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-26
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 839 |
| MD | HB180 | Veto | Prohibiting a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members; establishing certain penalties; providing a railroad company is solely responsible for the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-25
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB3 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include the State as a member of the U.S. Climate Alliance on or before July 1, 2018; prohibiting the Governor from withdrawing the State from the U.S. Climate Alliance unless the General Assembly enacts a law approving the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| MD | HB230 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the State may withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative by requiring the General Assembly to enact a law approving the withdrawal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | HB403 | Pass | Establishing the Community College Facilities Renewal Grant Program to provide State funds to community colleges for improvements, repairs, and deferred maintenance projects; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to administer the Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 |
| MD | HB365 | Pass | Altering the determination of the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain deduction under the Maryland income tax; requiring the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, in consultation with the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 |
| MD | HB605 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority to engage an outside consultant to conduct a market-specific study to make certain determinations related to a State student loan refinancing program in Maryland; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 |
| MD | HB570 | Pass | Altering the determination of the amount of the standard deduction for an individual under the Maryland income tax; altering the minimum and maximum limitation amounts of certain standard deductions allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 576 |
| MD | HB714 | Pass | Extending the termination date to September 30, 2022, for certain provisions of law authorizing certain hybrid vehicles to use a certain high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane regardless of the number of passengers under certain circumstances; extending t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 679 |
| MD | HB856 | Pass | Altering the Maryland earned income tax credit to allow certain individuals without certain qualifying children to claim the credit; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; and making the Act contingent on the taking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | HB993 | Pass | Requiring that, consistent with certain fiduciary duties, the investment policy manual adopted by the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System include certain policies and address certain details regarding the management of certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 769 |
| MD | HB1596 | Pass | Providing that, except as prohibited by federal law, a provision in certain employment contracts, policies, or agreements that waive certain rights or remedies to a claim of sexual harassment or certain retaliation is null and void as being against t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | HB1481 | Pass | Requiring, for a development with 11 or more homes to be built by the same builder, a home builder to provide a purchaser with written information on energy-efficient options, including a statement that tax credits may be available related to the ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 |
| MD | HB1456 | Pass | Expanding the definition of "offshore drilling activity" to mean the exploration, development, production or transportation of oil or gas on or under the outer continental shelf; establishing that an offshore drilling activity is an ultrahazardous an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| MD | HB1634 | Pass | Altering the definition of "unfair or deceptive trade practice" to be "unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice"; providing the purpose of the Act is to support enforcement by and funding of the Office of the Attorney General and the Commissioner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 |
| MD | HB1350 | Pass | Altering the definition of the construction practice term "Coast Smart" to include highway facilities; requiring the Coast Smart Council in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Transportation, to establish Coast ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 628 |
| MD | HB531 | Pass | Requiring drivers approaching from the rear certain vehicles that are stopped, standing, or parked on a highway and using certain visual signals to make a lane change to an available lane not immediately adjacent to the stopped, standing, or parked v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| MD | HB700 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from committing certain acts against a group because of the group's race, color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or national origin, or because the group is homeless.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 498 |
| MD | HB871 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to make a one-time transfer of up to $25,000,000 from the non-State supported fund balance to a quasi-endowment fund; limiting the use of certain proceeds to certain purposes; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 392 |
| MD | HB946 | Pass | Requiring a carrier to provide to an insured under a policy or contract of long-term care insurance a certain contingent benefit upon lapse under certain circumstances; providing that certain benefits of a certain policy or contract of long-term care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| MD | HB1104 | Pass | Requiring vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches, or their agents, to allow vehicle dealers to furnish consumer data in a certain manner; authorizing manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches to access data management syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 |
| MD | HB1283 | Pass | Altering, from a 6-month to a 12-month period, the length for which a certain insurer, nonprofit health service plan, and health maintenance organization is required to provide coverage for a single dispensing of a supply of prescription contraceptiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| MD | HB633 | Pass | Enabling private entities to accept the use of a certain substitute address by a victim of domestic abuse who is a participant in an address confidentiality program; requiring any person to accept a certain address of a participant in an address conf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 |
| MD | HB1342 | Pass | Altering the training course that the State Ethics Commission is required to provide for regulated lobbyists and prospective regulated lobbyists; prohibiting a certain State official from unlawfully harassing or discriminating against certain individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525 |
| MD | HB285 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Transportation to collect and consolidate available information from State and local agencies regarding an unmet need for safe pedestrian and bicycle access to schools in the State; and requiring the Department to report i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 295 |
| MD | HB807 | Pass | Altering the amounts of and process for appropriating highway user funds that are required to be distributed to Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities in certain fiscal years; requiring that certain capital highway grants may be made only under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 |
| MD | HB1646 | Pass | Requiring a State's Attorney to serve a written notice on a certain defendant, defendant's counsel, and the court prior to trial or the acceptance of a guilty plea or the equivalent; requiring a court to inform, verbally or in writing, a defendant co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 251 |
| MD | HB1662 | Pass | Prohibiting retail pet stores from offering for sale, transferring, or disposing of cats or dogs; repealing certain provisions of law that authorize the sale of certain cats and dogs and set forth the requirements for a retail pet store that offers t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 |
| MD | HB1400 | Pass | Providing that participation by certain organizations in the State employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program may not impede, undermine, or conflict with certain obligations or statuses; authorizing an employee of a county board to part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| MD | HB106 | Pass | Altering the defined term "emergency vehicle" to include certain organ delivery vehicles; authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to designate an organ delivery vehicle as an emergency vehicle only if it is registered to a federally designated o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 186 |
| MD | HB1302 | Pass | Authorizing certain individuals to file a petition for an extreme risk protective order with a certain court or a District Commissioner under certain circumstances; requiring a petition for an extreme risk protective order to contain certain informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 250 |
| MD | HB221 | Pass | Requiring each county or municipality, to the extent practicable, to expedite the process for the application and issuance of a permit related to or required for the construction of public or private school facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 81 |
| MD | HB244 | Pass | Altering the date from November 15 to November 1 by which a member of the General Assembly may request the Department of Legislative Services to prepare a bill for prefile at a regular session under certain circumstances; and altering the date from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 71 |
| MD | HB516 | Intro | Altering the calculation of the required funding amount for community colleges including the Baltimore City Community College in certain fiscal years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB841 | Intro | Establishing the Endowed University System of Maryland Scholarship Program; authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to transfer up to $50,000,000 from the non-State supported fund balance to a certain quasi-endowment fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB821 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $125,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Alvin S Mintzes Hatzalah of Baltimore, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB834 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $175,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Executive and County Council of Baltimore County for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB983 | Intro | Prohibiting, in the years 2019 through 2021, a carrier from imposing an annual increase of a renewal premium rate that exceeds 5% for certain policies or contracts of long-term care insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB945 | Intro | Prohibiting a carrier from imposing a premium rate increase for a policy or contract of long-term care insurance in a year in which the carrier, or any entity with which the carrier is affiliated, pays a dividend, or comparable payment, to its shareh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1101 | Engross | Prohibiting a person or an agent, a representative, or a designee of the State or a local government from requiring, coercing, or compelling an individual to undergo a certain implanting of a certain identification device; authorizing an individual w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross | Establishing the Drug Cost Commission to determine how to make prescription drugs more affordable for State residents, State and local government, commercial health plans and other stakeholders within the State; requiring the Commission to create an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1341 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland 529 Board to develop an application form for a certain State contribution program that includes certain information; requiring the Governor to provide appropriations of $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $3,000,000 in fiscal ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1697 | Engross | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to limit the uses of certain revenues to educational opportunities and programs for the children of the State in public schools, the advancement of educators, and the construction of school faciliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB936 | Intro | Requiring public senior and private nonprofit higher education institutions, within 30 days of a student's acceptance and before reducing a student's institutional gift aid, to provide certain students with notice of whether additional gift aid may r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB1577 | Intro | Requiring the Governor's Office for Children to fund family navigation services to support parents and other caregivers of children or youth with behavioral health needs or developmental disabilities and to address certain other priorities concerning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1626 | Intro | Authorizing a custodian of records for the Motor Vehicle Administration to disclose certain personal information to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement only after being provided with a valid warrant or subpoena issued by a federal court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB308 | Pass | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax for certain decedents; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2019; providing that,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB1654 | Engross | Specifying the circumstances under which a broadband Internet access service provider may handle certain customer personal information in a certain manner; establishing a mechanism through which a broadband Internet access service provider may obtain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1642 | Engross | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to designate an individual as the Student Loan Ombudsman to serve as a liaison between student loan borrowers and student loan servicers; establishing the duties and responsibilities of the Student L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Rosapepe) |
